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larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (3/17/2015 2:55:41 PM)
There's been several attacks on Singapore so far and a lot more scheduled and I was wondering how the division defending was holding up and I was surprised to find it in relatively good shape. There's 3+ Jap divisions that have been assaulting plus the Jap ships offshore lending their support and the 8th division can probably weather a couple more attacks. But in the end I know the base must fall. [image]local://upfiles/16287/FED7971176484C8A886AA4C22FA8A5A3.gif[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (3/17/2015 5:34:42 PM)
New moves from Thomas, new turn. Singapore fell and Tarakan fell and there's been some movement of ships and planes into the AO and it's happening at the wrong time because my planes are tired, too tired for combat yet. [image]local://upfiles/16287/B5DC06861A814AA784E153DCF018E352.gif[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (3/17/2015 5:41:15 PM)
Here's the face of PI now. There's been no pushing and shoving for a while now and that's because most of the Jap reinforcements are going to the mainland for the past couple of turns. The proficiency of the Phillippine troops is too low to attack with but so far they have held their positions. It's just a matter of time until the entire island chain is in Jap hands. Eventually. [image]local://upfiles/16287/0D5D2FD9CE89463FB5A022BA983465CF.gif[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (3/17/2015 5:46:07 PM)
Here's the face of north China. This area seems stable and that's because nothing has happened here for a couple of game turn months. I've still got a couple of free partisans to do things with but mostly it's frozen in place. [image]local://upfiles/16287/B13EFAE5F32E4D3EB750BB85D282F7B0.gif[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (3/17/2015 5:50:39 PM)
Here's the face of Burma. So far the Japs have been contained and things are going smoothly for the Allies. But now that Singapore has fallen I expect a lot more Jap units to appear sometime soon. Thomas may invade at Rangoon again. I have reason to believe that he wants to see what he can do in India. I personally wish he'd invade OZ. [image]local://upfiles/16287/0F9E194CD0A040178C7563C4CB9825BD.gif[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (3/17/2015 6:11:24 PM)
Here's the face of Java now. I've made it about as ready as I can. The rest is up to the fighting ability of the individual units. [image]local://upfiles/16287/545FAE03120D4098A86B09592C1803A8.gif[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (3/18/2015 4:05:02 PM)
Now that Singapore has fallen Thomas seems to be concentrating on Burma and Java. He's railed in some fresh troops and I predict that he'll press north with them. That's my weak spot in that area. [image]local://upfiles/16287/A7E4DC2676714A3DB9BB27638A2E1FF1.gif[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (3/18/2015 4:09:46 PM)
Here's the face of Java now. Thomas found a weak spot and invaded there and he's rushing out from there to the different ends of the island. He's flown in some planes and there's several TF's in and around these waters. It's a substantial effort. My planes are tired and worn out and he's already displaced a couple of the squadrons I had based there. The good news is that the troops were rested and fully supplied. I'm curious to know how long the two ends of the island can hold out. [image]local://upfiles/16287/4FEA8CA32E8A41E4B396F5E7CCEB3235.gif[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (3/18/2015 4:12:36 PM)
Here's the face of Sumatra now. I had a few defenders on the island but only a few and Thomas has had no problem pushing them aside and taking over the bases. He's pursuing my defenders into the fields and mountains. [image]local://upfiles/16287/963B78F774294FB1B119EB295CB8C075.gif[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (3/18/2015 4:16:22 PM)
I have two defenders trapped on Borneo and I'm afraid both of them are write offs. I still own Mandalay and Davao but I'll bet Thomas has designs on the island. The planes in Java will have to displace eventually and I'm thinking of moving some of them to Davao and some to OZ. Maybe Darwin. [image]local://upfiles/16287/C71E02F0590D42E693A96E3976B6A1DF.gif[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (3/18/2015 4:37:32 PM)
I found three Australian light bomber units near Sydney and moved them to Davao. They are similar and when you look at one you've seen all three. Some generic monoplane bombers and a few fighters for top cover. They don't have any anti-shipping capability but I can put them on sea interdiction missions. I'll see if I can't find some SBD's and or some TBD's to tackle that stack of Jap ships. I've moved the planes off the carriers except for the Enterprise. You may remember that I lost the Yorktown already so there's two air groups that are independent. It would be just my luck that they are tired and worn out and aren't combat ready yet. [image]local://upfiles/16287/2DFAEC8D1B05486BB5C8422CFB827F6D.gif[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (3/18/2015 4:43:28 PM)
I got to looking around and finally found the Yorktown groups the last place I looked. It turns out that the fighters are in reorg and the bombers are borderline ready. I hate to use them when they are less than 60% or so but sometimes the needs of the Navy trumps the needs of the individual. [image]local://upfiles/16287/7E3F1FF4714F4FF0A46052837CAF0173.gif[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (3/18/2015 5:36:58 PM)
I've moved the units and now for the attacks. This is the results of the airstrike on that stack of Allied ships. 6 of 8 DD's. [image]local://upfiles/16287/8B485F9BB6354B4891C7006136F8460B.gif[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (3/18/2015 7:21:51 PM)
New moves from Thomas, new turn. Thomas hit Batavia hard last turn. Planes ships and of course land troops and he took horrific losses and I've taken a look at the 3rd of the 3rd and it's in surprisingly good shape. I think they can weather another attack like that. Which is sure to come eventually. I don't think one bad attack result is going to hold back Thomas for long. He's got some BB's he can bring up to help out, if they aren't already there. I don't know where the Jap heavy naval stuff is and the carriers are a mystery. [image]local://upfiles/16287/C3144554339D480498742EBD3C17C8E0.gif[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (3/18/2015 7:42:46 PM)
Here's how the air war is alegedly going right now. I think my intell department is overestimating the BDA a little bit. 222 planes lost by the Japs seems high since they have the highest AS value right now. Maybe it's a global / local thing. I can't imagine Thomas allowing that level of losses for very long. On the other hand, I seem to remember his disdain for losses as the Allied player. Perhaps he still has disdain, this time for the Jap forces. That might explain what's going on. He's driving his planes too hard. Losses are high because his people are tired. That's my theory. [image]local://upfiles/16287/773396DF4933405C86E80E176DDA09E5.gif[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (3/18/2015 8:02:15 PM)
Here's my losses so far. I've eliminated all the categories that had no losses and this is what's left. [image]local://upfiles/16287/9FE67F1B0FA1496CBF1B33E93992F5C6.gif[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (3/18/2015 8:10:04 PM)
Hey Thomas: I'd like to take a minute and lobby for the C-46. I'm not sure how we could include it and how it would work but it would be neato if we could use it as a mobile supply point or something. That and the C-47. [image]local://upfiles/16287/9D22ECB19F5C4935B5251EA2C5B957F5.gif[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (3/18/2015 8:20:13 PM)
I had an infantry division at Perth that I kinda wanted in India and I hesitated to sail it across those uncharted waters not knowing what lurks out there. So I sent a DD first and it got intercepted by one of those smaller Betty and Emily squadrons and so I kept going hoping I wouldn't get sunk ( 4 DD's in the TF ) it didn't get intercepted again, so I started the INF division from Perth and discovered I didn't have enough MP's to make it to the mainland, I had to settle for Ceylon. So next time not from Perth but Geralton instead. Or whatever the name of the town is just north of Perth. [image]local://upfiles/16287/52D9050851AA4CAAA6011C929992C088.gif[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (3/18/2015 11:12:32 PM)
The ANZAC 3rd of the 3rd at Batavia has been through several attacks now and it's in surprisingly good shape still. Thomas has been moving unit after unit into an adjacent hex for one more really good push I guess. I guess it's time for me to being in my heavy guns: Commonwealth BB's and CA's from the Ceylon area. I'll have to run the gauntlet of sea interdiction just to get there to fight with him. [image]local://upfiles/16287/B3482F64EAA44569A95FA594D64A1438.gif[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (3/18/2015 11:28:33 PM)
There were two TF's near Ceylon and I chose one at random and drove it to the invasion site and lost 3 DD's and a BB just getting to the fight. Then I lost a bunch of ships sinking one Jap CA. Maybe I can destroy that Jap stack of floating equipment. [image]local://upfiles/16287/8B4B00D7BF344FB0B2C767DE948453E9.gif[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (3/19/2015 1:21:01 AM)
New moves from Thomas. During the night of T15 the Japs brought every land combat unit that was unemployed and some BB's from the Manila area and lots of planes and the 3rd of the 3rd finally capitulated. Thomas left a hex for it to retreat into and it finally did retreat. The group composition for one of those Jap hexes lists only the first 9 units in the hex. [image]local://upfiles/16287/DE3D111E810744F295E13C80816142B2.gif[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (3/19/2015 5:12:31 AM)
During Thomas's turn he attacked Bataan and got slaughtered. He says he's going to continue these kind of attacks. [image]local://upfiles/16287/4CD1BF0FC5A3497EA890E81F7CD3C70A.gif[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (3/19/2015 5:26:16 AM)
The 25th Inf Div made it from Geralton to Madras okie dokie. That's two divisions so far that have made it across the gulf. I'm wondering if I ought to move some ships to Geralton just as insurance. Nah. [image]local://upfiles/16287/BCA1F584D5314234889C7C1AE8346A12.gif[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (3/19/2015 3:47:22 PM)
Here's an overview with some hot spots. The fighting continues in Java with heavy losses for the Japs. The 3rd Division has two more brigades remaining on the island and it is hoped they will fight to the last man. [image]local://upfiles/16287/4FA46F6873464FF482BCD8F84D659629.gif[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (3/19/2015 5:26:04 PM)
Okie dokie, new turn. Java is down to just one defender. He's probably not going to last long. The spotter plane in the hex...... does it lend any defensive power at all? Anybody know? [image]local://upfiles/16287/EF1B6E8088C842DE8E8F97BE96C3BC08.gif[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (3/19/2015 7:53:35 PM)
Here's where the carrier Lexington is now. All those brave Allied ships are cowering on the edge of the map for fear of getting sunk by some Bettys or Nells. I can't afford to lose another carrier just now and I'm not taking any chances. [image]local://upfiles/16287/E0FBB07455E84AC99B7B834E94B28DDD.gif[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (3/20/2015 12:34:20 AM)
I seem to have managed to capture Saigon. There was nobody home except for two ships and it was easy to force them out of the harbor. I'm pretty sure Thomas is going to react to this somehow. He'll probably float somebody in from somewhere and force me out of the city but I can bust bridges and stuff before I leave. [image]local://upfiles/16287/256A921870B64EFAAAD529D226091F9B.gif[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (3/20/2015 12:57:42 AM)
This is T23 now and it seems that I've got only two more turns to use the AVG since they are going to be folded into the 23rd Fighter group. That's my finest American squadron besides the naval groups and I hate to lose them. The British have some high proficiency pilots but their airframes are limiting. Like the P-40 and the Wildcat. It's not until T93 or so until we start getting some good airframes ( P-51's and B-29's ). [image]local://upfiles/16287/6B36991763114CE087B234CF1E975F62.gif[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (3/20/2015 1:09:01 AM)
There's a Chinese fighter unit that used to have only Biplanes and I see here now in T23 that they finally got their late model P-40's with their higher range and much better offensive and defensive values. I used to run this unit at the one-dot setting because we're not making any more Gladiators and now that there's P-40's in the unit, of which I have a lot, now I can start to run this unit at a two-dot setting. I don't have any three-dot settings on any of my aircraft units. The only three-dot settings I'm using are those smaller units on atolls and the Chinese Army and the Indian and British units in Burma. And the Partisans. And in Java. Okay, most of everybody else. [image]local://upfiles/16287/2F2EBAC2D01E4FB1A58087EDBDF27986.gif[/image]

larryfulkerson -> RE: Playtest of Pacific at War 3 25 14 (3/20/2015 1:22:52 AM)
Here's how the air war is going right now. Yeah, I know, I'm just as dumbfounded as you about the inversion of AS level and number of shoot-downs. I'm guessing most of those losses are the Nates and light bombers Thomas is using for his INT missions. I'd like to see what the Jap losses are right now. Hint, hint. [image]local://upfiles/16287/F5823F37354A42C2A16E5774C923790A.gif[/image]

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